This made Sayyed smile and he replied, "Never, Baba!"
"Then why do you look like you are about to die?" Baba joked.
Sayyed began laughing and felt happy once again.
After staying the day, the Nasik group left by the night train.
During Baba's stay in Nasik, Sarosh did not go even once to see him because of his preoccupation with his own private business affairs, which were flourishing. Later, when Baba returned to Meherabad, Sarosh was given a strict instruction to visit from 3:00 to 6:00 P.M. daily. However, every day Sarosh was met with a strange reception. Baba would talk with everyone except him. Baba would not inquire anything of him or even look at him. Hurt, Sarosh felt very bad, but did not say anything.
After a number of days, Baba asked him, "Is something wrong with you? You look very upset."
Sarosh replied, "You call me here every afternoon — you make me sit with the mandali for hours — but you don't even look at me! You completely ignore me!"
"And you are feeling this neglect very much?"
"Yes, Baba, I am," Sarosh said with feeling.
Baba countered, "Now you will understand how I felt all those years in Nasik when you never came to see me! Did you ever think about how bad I felt then about your not coming to see me? You are pained because I am not paying attention to you. How do you like the taste of your own medicine?"
Sarosh burst into tears and fell at Baba's feet begging forgiveness.
Baba warned him, "Pay attention, Sarosh. However much you may want to get rid of me or get away from me, you cannot do so — nor can I get rid of you! I am in you and you are in me. If you don't believe me, open up your shirt and see!"
As Sarosh described, "This I did, and there on my naked chest was Baba's image. At this, overcome, I dashed my head on the floor before him, blood came out and I fainted. Then he took my head in his lap, revived and consoled me."
Sarosh was his old self again from that day on and went to Baba as often as he could. Sarosh's wife, Viloo, however, would not accompany him to Meherabad, as she was not devoted to Meher Baba at the time. But years later, Viloo came to love her husband's Master.
Baba went to Arangaon on Saturday, 23 December 1933. Walu was staying at her house in the village and going up the hill each day to be with the other women mandali. Baba visited with Walu, Maruti Patil, and Chhagan's family, who were staying in the Family Quarters.